Timeline

1939-1940

With the international situation deteriorating rapidly there was little close season activity, and there were no new faces in the Leeds team which met Hunslet in the Lazenby Cup match at Headingley....

1938-1939

This campaign saw the complete disintegration of the famous back division of the middle thirties, and it was not until the closing months of the season that the management were able to show the fou....

1937-1938

This was another remarkably successful year with the team performing most creditably in all four competitions. Once again the Yorkshire Challenge Cup and the Yorkshire League Cup came to Headingley....

1936-1937

Although strenuous efforts were made by the management to maintain the playing strength at a high standard in the hope of attaining further honours, particularly the League Championship which had s....

1935-1936

1936!! This is the year which is richest of all in memories, for those who were in any way associated with the Club at that time it conjures up visions of the glorious Wembley Cup Final triumph, an....

1934-1935

In view of the tremendous recruiting drive of the previous campaign close season activity was on a very reduced scale, so that the only important signing was that of Len Higson the prop forward. Read more

1933-1934

The season opened on a sad note with the news that Joe Thompson had decided to retire from the game, at the age of 31. Thompson had been a such a tower of strength for so many years – he played his....

1932-1933

Football, indeed all sport, is full of unexpected thrills and disappointments. Triumph and disaster, those “twin-impostors”, go hand in hand. If proof were needed, it surely and certainly lies in t....

1931-1932

The season opened in splendid fashion, gradually merged into a period of mediocrity and uncertainty, and finished in a blaze of glory with the winning of the R. L. Challenge Cup.

Although t....

1930-1931

This was a memorable season. For the first time in the history of the Club two trophies were proudly brought to Headingley: the Yorkshire Challenge Cup and the Yorkshire Championship Cup. In additi....